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Burns & McDonnell · 1 week ago

Project Engineer - Underground & Submarine Cables (Kansas City)

Kansas City, MO

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Burns & McDonnell is seeking a Project Engineer for their Transmission & Distribution global practice in Kansas City, MO. The Project Engineer will be responsible for leading engineering projects from proposal to closeout, ensuring quality control, coordinating with the design team, and maintaining client engagement.

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Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership, direction, and support to design team

Provide team level accountability for the implementation and tracking of design quality control processes and procedures utilizing all applicable QC forms and checklists

Proactive coordination and communication of project requirements and schedule needs across disciplines

Identify, develop, and communicate processes and tools to increase efficiency across the team and department

Ensure that client requirements and expectations, industry standards, and Burns & McDonnell standards are maintained

Communicate with the project manager regularly regarding project status and identification of challenges or concerns relating to project designs, the client, or the team

Identify development needs of team and mentor, coach, and develop team members (engineers, designers, drafters, admin, etc.)

Communicate staffing needs and employee performance to department managers

Create, improve, facilitate and teach training courses to the team and department

Develop engineering scope, labor hour estimates, schedules and staffing plans

Develop project design criteria

Identify and communicate technical risks to the project

Ensure adherence to project plan. Proactively communicate changes to project plan with the team

Maintain responsibility for interdisciplinary design coordination

Oversee production work required to meet deliverable milestones

Coordinate design change notifications with project manager

Provide technical leadership over construction engineering support

Manage vendor drawing reviews and fabrication progress

Monitor workload and facilitate project assignments across team

Communicating high risk or urgent technical issues with the client

Communicate and schedule necessary project resource needs

Perform QC reviews, as required

Ensure that all document sealing requirements for the project are met

Assist in preparation of project status reports

Serve as primary technical point of contact for the client

Communicate all client engineering standards to the project team, including client revisions, expectations, and interpretations

Build relationships with key personnel at the client organization

Qualification

Underground Electrical InfrastructureProfessional Engineering RegistrationProject ManagementCritical Path MethodMicrosoft ProjectPrimavera P6Analytical SkillsCommunication SkillsProblem-Solving Skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Civil, or Mechanical engineering from an accredited program

Must have a minimum of five years of experience in project (engineer/construction) development and execution

Experience working on underground electrical infrastructure projects

Professional Engineering (PE/P.Eng) registration

Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Must be capable of applying intensive and diversified knowledge of principles and practices to broad areas of assignments

Preferred

Experience with project management including:

Experience estimating projects

Experience with Critical Path Method or Resource Loaded Schedules (Microsoft Project, Primavera P6)

Experience with contracts and specification development

Previous consulting experience

Previous utility company experience

Previous construction or EPC experience

Previous submarine cable design and/or installation

Company

Burns & McDonnell

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Burns & McDonnell is an engineering design firm and it provides engineering, architecture, construction, and consulting services.

Founded in 1898

Kansas City, Missouri, USA

10001+ employees

http://www.burnsmcd.com

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